How To Use Pause In A Sentence

  • A pause in lecturing, consequent upon our mid-year examinations having begun, has given me a little respite, and I am paying a three days 'visit upon an old friend here, meaning to leave for New York to-morrow, where I have a couple of lectures to give. Familiar Letters of William James II
  • Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
  • She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
  • By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare. Times, Sunday Times
  • He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
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  • It is a good service to provide for your listeners so we don't have to pause the show find whatever your looking at and then come back. aria on August 22, 2009 3: 04 pm intro is a cover of the airman stage on rockman 2. its called airman ga taosenai, u can find lots of versions of it on nico nico douga Anime Pulse » Shows
  • I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
  • But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
  • The atmosphere grew tenser and an awkward pause ensued.
  • In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
  • Walking down her long driveway, she paused briefly to check the mail in the letter box before continuing down to the sidewalk.
  • For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
  • She pauses a moment before answering. Times, Sunday Times
  • Malcolm hit the pause button as I reached over and grabbed the phone.
  • The Sub – Prior readily obeyed the first part of the Abbot’s injunction, but paused upon the second — “It is Friday, most reverend,” he said in Latin, desirous that the hint should escape, if possible, the ears of the stranger. The Monastery
  • He paused again, letting the name seep into the minds of those assembled and waiting for the general reaction. Doors Into Chaos
  • He pauses, shakes his head, then boisterously proclaims, ‘Aw, gee whiz, I guess that means the hot dogs are on me, gang!’
  • That de Rugy has testified before Congress on the basis of her evidence, and never paused to consider why the top five congressional districts on her list overlap with Sacramento, Albany, Austin, Tallahassee and Harrisburg, is mind-boggling. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Stimulus Funding Political?
  • Pay attention to the pause at the end of each cadence.
  • The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).
  • Demonstrations of guided missiles, of a patient taking what looks like a Barium swallow in front of a fluoroscope, and the father taking home movies of his child with a video camera and playing them back on his TV all give us pause to remember that whatever good or not-so-good aspects of our present-day lives, we stand on the shoulders of people who were true visionaries more than 50 years ago. Archive 2009-06-01
  • He paused to allow his words to sink in.
  • There was another pause; the proverbial dilatoriness of watched pots was never more clearly exemplified. Wessex Tales
  • A Hindu holy man pauses after praying on Sunday.
  • Sabin paced along the wall walk and paused by the next crenel. The Falcons of Montabard
  • He paused at the intersection, fearful that a hard leather boot was waiting for him no matter which way he ran.
  • It is prudent we pause further reductions while the current situation is unfolding. The Sun
  • As we sit looking across the Thames, he pauses to catch his breath. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • I paused outside the carved double doors, gathering my dignity and composure around me like a shield.
  • At about two years old, his three-foot girth spills out onto the flagstone path, causing visitors to pause on the way to the arbour.
  • Here he pauses, then continues, sounding like a cook admitting that a recipe is deceptively simple.
  • After a brief pause, she smiled at him humorlessly.
  • She paused just inside her showroom, looking round with a sense of achievement.
  • He paused before delivering a powerful thrust that skewered the water creature beyond healing.
  • There was a pause in which Bandeira visibly deployed his forces.
  • Shouldn't this give us pause for thought? Times, Sunday Times
  • We follow the sandy road that was once the sea and pause by a huddle of weather-beaten shacks.
  • I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
  • In a sense, the prime minister's Monday statement in the Commons on the IGC was a "closure", allowing a natural pause in media coverage on the EU treaty, until the Parliamentary battle starts for real in the New Year. Archive 2007-10-01
  • I find myself wondering, as I watch and read the unfolding news coverage of this event, if, as a society, we remain equipped to pause long enough to consider the long-term ramifications of any event, tragic or otherwise. Elizabeth Bisbee Silber: The Consequences of Our Rapid-Fire Culture
  • Watching Stephen King in overalls chugging a near vertical bottle of hooch is so lol-worthy you will pause and re-wind, I guarantee. TEN of TERROR #3: Creepshow « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • A much longer pause ensued, and Rolloniss casually walked across to the edge of the cliff, staring at the vast, unobscured countryside.
  • Keen only pauses for a single paragraph to broach the enormous issue of whether the internet and e-mail are actually changing the way our brains work. Times, Sunday Times
  • But now not many people have elevenses, or a formal pause at any other time in the working day, skipping lunch and grabbing a snack when they can.
  • The pause gave Edmund Jason time to adjust to his presence.
  • The risk of depression may increase again during the transition to menopause, when hormone levels begin to fluctuate erratically.
  • He pauses at a boundary, then sets up his old-fashioned camera on its tripod, focuses and sets the exposure, and then waits.
  • My therapist then paused from her writing, and looked me straight in the eye.
  • Why not pause for a moment and bathe in the emotional afterglow of that statement?
  • They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
  • It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di. Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
  • Invar hurled a throwing-stone which found the monster's face and made him pause. B. C. 30,000
  • I paused, then continued, assured that my prods would send him back to the castle.
  • All this plethora of sight , and feeling, and thought occurred on the instant . There was no pause of the realities wherein he moved.
  • Will there be a lot of ash in the atmosphere down on Rakatan, Doctor—" She paused, trying to remember the name he'd mumbled upon his appearance. Firestorm
  • After charging his age with being an enervate breed which is "ever on his knees before the footstool of Authority," he goes on to observe that the process of statute-making ought to make one pause before according so much unquestioned deference to statutes.
  • Mr. Olivera paused for a moment - almost as though contemplating the situation, her voice ringing through his ears.
  • Platelet binding falls after the menopause and rises in women using the Pill.
  • After a brief pause, Felix returns to the phone and the line starts ringing.
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  • Even this Party should allow a decent pause before it flip-flops on fiscal policy.
  • Here we tackle important issues that are relevant to women of all ages, things like endometriosis, osteoporosis, fertility and perimenopause.
  • Jerwon and Tania, still a little speechless, paused in silent contemplation before following them.
  • George paused, and glanced significantly in my direction.
  • He could do one poem with sixty verses without pause, and Sir Emmanuel would listen and marvel at his ability.
  • The think tank's report comes after MPs blasted plans to pause the electrification of northern rail lines due to cost. The Sun
  • I paused at the small shop frontage from where some of the taxis are commanded, but it looked very unwelcoming and I wasn't sure of getting any sort of answer, let alone a helpful one.
  • There was an almost imperceptible pause as she gathered her breath to speak.
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • It slows as it begins to collide with the interstellar medium, and the point where the solar wind slows down is the termination shock; the point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the heliopause; the point where the interstellar medium, traveling in the opposite direction, slows down as it collides with the heliosphere is the bow shock. Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
  • Inwardly as distressed as the Thienz, Scait strode from the hall without pause to call a lackey to replace the rent limb of his throne arm. Shadowfane
  • There was a brief pause, as neither of us said anything; the only sound was the needle of my fountain pen scraping mundanely on the rough paper.
  • When the singing ceased, Hugh Ritson paused suddenly and turned to the old banksman. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
  • I pause to flex my muscles and prepare for flight in case some sort of ghost or troglodyte bursts out to eat our bones or whatever part of us a ghost might eat.
  • In the North there is a shorter pause, so conversations tend to and forth perceptibly faster.
  • Kwaque, squatted on the floor, his hams on his heels, paused from the rough-polishing of a shell comb designed and cut out by his master, and looked up, eager to receive command and serve. CHAPTER IV
  • If the sharing of food fosters family and social ties, and strong family and social relationships are an integral part of civil society, statistics such as these should give us pause.
  • Looked past the kitchen, at the hall to the bedroom where she'd paused Amy's slow-motion Fentanyl toboggan. ABSOLUTE ZERO
  • The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
  • Delays over her bathtub had occurred partly because the board prohibited whirlpool tubs, and partly because she had paused momentarily in revising her plans. Times, Sunday Times
  • This may sound scary but pause for a moment before reaching for the bleach. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first, you could see that the wrestlers were playing along with the crowd, deliberately leaving pauses during their speeches.
  • She paused to collect her thoughts before entering the interview room.
  • After a brief pause for judging, it will continue on to the community centre where refreshments for all participants will be served.
  • A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant.
  • The upper boundary of the layer, known as the tropopause, ranges in height from 5 miles (8 km) near the poles up to 11 miles (18 km) above the equator. RealClimate
  • He came to a pause in reading and then went on reading.
  • After a long pause, she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties.
  • Here, despite our fear of pursuit, despite the awful fetor of the rotting bodies, we had to pause to search through the knights ' gear. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • There was a pause, while Kara struggled to deal with her rioting emotions.
  • She paused to chuckle at an off-color joke someone felt the need to share with anyone listening.
  • The dozen or so of Danny's friends, convinced that the two Daniels did not commit a hate crime are so unattuned to the historical context of their words that it gave me pause. Reflections on a Rally
  • She rolled over onto her stomach and paused, as if she was waiting for the right moment to move.
  • A semicolon pause is longer than a comma pause and shorter than a period/full stop pause. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Semicolons
  • Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on. The Turn of the Screw
  • Long also assumed that, like sunlight, most cosmic rays were reflected by the Earth's atmosphere, and that as one rose higher above the Earth, the energy from cosmic rays would grow stronger until they would heat Pat Marsh's balloon hundreds of degrees when it rose above the stratopause. Diagnosing "Cosmic Fever"
  • You should have inserted a pause right there to give the audience time to collapse in hysterical laughter. Think Progress » Palin aide refuses to criticize Limbaugh by name when calling his ‘retard’ comments ‘crude and demeaning.’
  • That alone should make us pause before pushing the eject button. Times, Sunday Times
  • Would you pause to think about the 2-pound belt around your burnoose before running to the light? Month-end inventory (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • After menopause, the ovaries produce lower levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
  • Bet pauses and there is a collective tutting of disgust at such horrors as fully nude dancing.
  • In fact, it’s just gorgeous, and in the kind of synchrony that seems to be happening all too often to me lately, Alex and I were wandering around downtown on Saturday and paused at an adorable pastry shop called Financier on Stone Street. Gluten-free chocolate financiers | smitten kitchen
  • The song consists of one or two piping notes with pauses between each burst. Times, Sunday Times
  • I pause, watching as she gazes forlornly out the window.
  • My dad paused, clearly thinking of those folks who weekended out of the city. Ten Things Tuesday/Wednesday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
  • In answer to your question about how the water vapour gets that high, water vapour is thrown into the stratopause by volcanic eruptions and remains trapped.
  • In a cinema, we can certainly savour our sublime ‘moment’ if what we see stirs feelings of panic; watching a video, we can replay the occasion and ‘pause’ it as many times as we wish.
  • I suppose this is what they call ennui," said Eric again, after a pause. Eric, or Little by Little
  • She would almost stop, as though climbing a mountain, then rapidly rolling to right and left as she gained the summit of a huge sea, she steadied herself and paused for a moment as though affrighted at the yawning precipice before her. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
  • Let us pause for a moment to consider how outrageous that is. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gingerly I descended and paused, as a waft of cool air freshened my brow.
  • I paused to watch, and a few minutes later, several monkeys emerged from the dense forest and came to sit on a piece of dead wood jutting into the water, eyeing me up inquisitively.
  • He paused to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
  • She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
  • The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
  • There was an apology, a long pause, and then a flash of insight.
  • "There but for the grace of" has probably occurred to more than a few parliamentarians, and the fact that the Senate was sitting concurrent with all this bizzo might also give pause for thought.
  • There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
  • Its last assignment was to find the heliopause, where the solar wind is offset by the galactic wind, but in April 1997 it was passed by a younger, faster Voyager spacecraft.
  • I just have to sort of pause and let the brain reset from the complete focus on the chocolate. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • After a short pause, he added, " They've promised to take you there in a sedan - chair.
  • The speaker paused
  • He came to a pause in reading and then went on reading.
  • The train paused for only a few minutes at Hershey, then pulled off about a hundred yards and promptly broke down. The 12:39 to Matanzas
  • There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
  • There was then a pause for all of two seconds before another trailer for the series. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the years between puberty and the menopause, women's ovaries make a hormone called oestrogen.
  • The decline in U.S. stocks marked another pause in a monthlong rally that has made this September one of the strongest for U.S. stocks in history.
  • Placing a foot on the bottom step, he paused and looked up, his hand firmly on the worn banister rail. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • The voice is always in evidence, of course, but it's in public that it becomes shaped, like a piece of music, and one almost consciously listens for all the gilded glissandoes, the curlicues of wit, the velvet pauses.
  • he paused uncertainly
  • Once the trailers were over, there was an unusually long pause when the screen was just black.
  • There was a long pause and the image of the Captain's face projected on the faceplate of my helmet was thoughtful.
  • I said after a short pause.
  • We first meet him reelingly drunkenly out of a pub or betting shop, shouting four-letter abuse at a rate that might give James Kelman pause. Evening Standard - Home
  • After a pause she smiled apologetically and said, " I never really liked these things.
  • There was a pause and then fluorescent lights flickered to life.
  • Here she paused as for another, a last look at her father, and her expression seemed to say to him unaidedly that, much as she would have preferred to proceed to her act without this gross disorder, she could yet find inspiration too in the very difficulty and the old faiths themselves that he left her to struggle with. The Outcry
  • Interestingly, these higher levels of bioavailable (or bioactive) testosterone after menopause are not due to an increase in testosterone production but rather due to a decrease in sex-hormone binding-globulin (SHGB), possibly resulting from the menopausal decline in estrogen levels (a powerful stimulator of SHBG). How Menopause Turns Women Into SWANs | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
  • A pause: the speaker, though absent from our midst, has a fine grasp of the audience.
  • Its cadences follow the rhythms of machines, and pull the reader into its moments of repetition, into its pauses.
  • The woman paused, then nodded reluctantly, opening her door wider, letting them in.
  • There will be a brief pause in the proceedings while the piano is moved into place.
  • The lengthy pause after the last person strolls past emphasises both the void and provides a sense of fullness and weight.
  • Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses. The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
  • For the duration of the rut, territorial bulls within smelling distance of cows will barely pause long enough to munch a mouthful of grass.
  • A pause, then, "What do you call the inquisitive lump of hair with the educated nose that accompanies you? Lost And Found
  • The coarctate or pseudopupal stages are those in which hibernation or diapause occurs most frequently.
  • There was a beautifully pregnant pause in the finish of tour jetés, which allowed us to see the stretched and steady arabesque in landing.
  • Each pause ended with a rush of bound sheep piling up in the middle. TESTIMONIES
  • The oscillations in the measured dayglow intensities in the mesopause region and the winds at ~ 87 km are resulting from the modulation caused by this wave in this region after a delay of 4-5 days.
  • Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
  • System has a friendly user interface appearance, and we can easily select files, just like play, pause, stop operations.
  • Separating the mesosphere from the stratosphere is a transition zone called the stratopause. Atmosphere layers
  • And now they both broke down and sobbed aloud without a pause, like birds bereaved, like the sea eagle or taloned vulture, when villages have robbed the nests of their unfledged young.
  • When the magnetopause is stationary it must be in equilibrium with all forces and torques balanced.
  • Francesca watched with a covert twist of amusement to her mouth as Mrs Longton took a brief pause and lifted the cup to her tired lips.
  • As a result, Homer often needs four different formulaic phrases for each hero in order to fill each of the pauses indicated above.
  • But our spirituality DOES deeply need openings and pauses and receptivity to flourish, this is just as "spiritual" as outwardness and activity. Taking Time To Reflect
  • Demonstrated an understanding of their partner's speech output . Did not need pauses to process aural input.
  • The magnetosphere varies in size and shape, and its outer boundary - the magnetopause - gently undulates like a wave due to buffeting by the solar wind.
  • At this moment he wearied, wishing for nothing but a pause released from time in which he might lie low until the world was righted.
  • In any case, Harper might have hit the pause button, but he's still going to lose this fight when the game unfreezes. If I May Agree With Rick Mercer ...
  • It was unusual for Hal to pause so long.
  • While some irregularity may be termed normal, it must be understood that frequent periods, heavy bleeding are not due to menopause.
  • Astonished Humberside airport workers watched the bosses pause only to check their briefcases and take souvenir snaps of their twin-engine plane.
  • Conclusions:Liuwei Dihuang Pill, Xiaoyao Pill with Shengmai Powder have good therapeutic effects on peri-menopause syndrome, and have no side effects.
  • He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
  • Mel paused, to let his appoint sink home, before continuing.
  • The reason of this unusual rapidity of movement is the unusual character of the eight-syllable verse as acatalectic, almost all other kinds of verse being catalectic on at least one syllable, implying a final pause of corresponding duration. Confessions of a Book-Lover
  • It's a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.
  • She paused, searching for inspiration.
  • After a brief pause, she smiled at him humorlessly.
  • Out in the street, as I paused to wipe my brow and catch my breath after wrestling the bins over the curb and up onto the grass, I looked up the block toward my neighbors the Trash Pigs.
  • Shall we take a pause here?
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • Three kinds of exercise are particularly helpful in reducing troublesome symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
  • They continue this pattern until they diapause in the leaf litter, where they over-winter, emerging in the spring as orange caterpillars with numerous dark brown, tufted spines.
  • The piece ends with Winerip cudgeling legalization activist Ethan Nadelmann (who -- gasp -- has a PhD from Harvard!) into admitting that he still, at ripe middle age, smokes pot -- and has even done so in the presence of children ... [pause for reader to make a call to protective services]. Daniel Denvir: I, Pot Smoker
  • He strode to the door and there paused as her voice halted him. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • There was a brief pause, then Caitlin giggled and heard an answering snicker from Michael.
  • The players paused to rub down between games.
  • ` men's barber, 'pause café ` coffee break,' the slang arrêt pipi ` rest stop, 'et al. One even hears (and reads) nowadays such innovations as trajet-bureau ` office distance,' i.e. ` travel time from office to home. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
  • There was no rest, never a moment's pause from the cheerless, heart-breaking battle. Trust
  • Captain Valentine paused before he scolded Wesley for his audaciousness.
  • He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture.
  • She paused an instant, with a pale, absent expression, as if she searched herself, then looked up clearly in the confiding face above her, and promised what she faithfully performed in afteryears. Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.
  • There was a pause. Then Ursula broke into faltering challenge.
  • Because the term therapy is usually used in medicine when there is a disease or condition that requires therapy and the menopause transition is a normal physiological process, this chapter will use the more neutral term “hormone treatment” instead of “hormone therapy.” Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
  • An estimated 20K of "My Empire for Ashes" is because, the night before the big battle that closes Act Two, Katrina comes to the castle to see her abandoned daughters - her sole return to the city after she left thirtyish years ago to join the Council's breeding program - and, when she is dismissed, she and Telenias see each other on the balcony - and they both pause. Monday
  • Just as the pause edges towards the ridiculous he reaches into his jacket for this packet of cheroots.
  • He paused and thought about doubling down, but seemed afraid to put out the extra money on such an insecure gamble.
  • Ruth paused to draw breath , her voice barely hiding her excitement.
  • Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
  • I ayent got no pause i iz typing wiff a mowff stick The plants - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The guy paused in his speech, mentally marking the place he was up to and pondered the question for a moment.
  • Rather, the deferral is taken without prejudice; it is a pause, a time-out, to allow the President to establish his vision for human space exploration and to commit to realistic future funding levels to realize this vision. NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives

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